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must be used after the hook is once fixed ; the line, 
as previously mentioned, being strong, the fish’s head 
must be held up to the top of the water ; play in such 
circumstances being out of the question, nothing but 
work, energetic work, can be allowed. A long-handled 
landing-net, adroitly slipped below the trout, removes 
all doubt of safety, and he is at once transferred to 
the basket. On a very wooded water, once in posses- 
sion of the writer, a dish of fish could be ensured at 
almost any time during the season by this means.* 
The keeper called it “circumventing ’em,” and it 
differs little from what Mr. Kingsley, in his enter- 
taining Chalk Stream Studies, terms “ foxing.” Who- 
ever may try it successfully will no doubt agree with 
that reverend author and angler that there is a con- 
siderable amount of pleasurable excitement in “ foxing 
a great fish.” 
STONE-FLIES. 
The class of insects known as the Phryganide, 
spring or stone flies, are, as bait, only second in import- 
ance to the Ephemeride or May-flies, while both genera 
are equally remarkable in their natural economy. The 
word “Phryganea” or “spring-fly” has little more 
actual reference to the history of the class than 
“Ephemera,” for all the Phryganide are not peculiarly 
* Using, of course, other insects when the May-fly was not on 
the water, 
